Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1887-01-27

fortune of $4,000 by the death OF an
aunt in Pennsylvania.
Mrs. Rhoda Strunk, wife OF the editor of
the Gaylord Independent has been appoint
ed postmistress at Gaylord otsego
I county.
Col Black OF the Twenty third infantry,
Fort Wayne, has been summoned TO Wash
ington To attend the court martial OF
! Lieut. Cearles Humphreys of the Third
Artillery, son OF the late Gen. Humphreys,
chief OF engineers.
Travelling men should investigate the
advantages offered by the GRAND UNION
HOTEL, New York, as a stopping place for
/ the commercial fraternity. 1t Is strictly
first-class in every particular and Is con-
Quoted at prices that caunot but command
the attention of travellers who wish to
live well and at the same time save their
houses as much as possible in the way OF
expenses. Traveller.
The prohibition state central committee
met in Lansing on the Goth inst, and decid-
ed to hold their state convention in Ian.
sing, Feb. "a. The basis of representation
will be ten delegates to each representa-
tive district. The following committee
was appointed TO act with the temperance
people of the state in the event the amend
ment is submitted: Samuel Dickie, Albion;
j. II. Laing, Flint A. b. Cheney, Sparta;
Robert King, Lapeer: e. b. Sutton, Adrian.
Frank II. Guest, living near Otsego
started for the village after a physician
/ for his mother who was quite i'll, and re.
| turning was himself taken suddenly ILL., and
died the following day. His mother was
gaining steadily until She heard of her sons
death and Thursday afternoon she died
from grief at his untimely end.
Marshall proudly boasts that it is out Of
debt.
Ernest Minkley, q brakeman on the ID.
( L. a. N, was cut in two by the cars near
Rodney.
! Fred Lamond of Kalamazoo dropped
dead on the street in st. Thomas, Ont, a
few days ago.
Charles Wixtrom of Muskegon, a Swede
80 years old, who has been working for his
board for the city hall as janitor, accident
ally fell down stairs and broke his skull,
killing him almost instantly. He has no
relatives i'll this country.
/ The Wageworkers' party OF Grand Rap
ids has been organized. The bylaws
adopted specify that it Is to be local in its
! character. the most prominent idea being
| TO purify and elevate the politics of that
city and to enlist in its ranks all men who
are interested in bringing about this re-
suit. The members propose TO form n
number of local clubs, which Will be under
the direction of the central committee.
Montcalm county has decided not to
furnish the inmates of the county house
! any more tobacco, the bills for that article
having reached about 500 per year.
The bill for the relief of Marsh q Lafever
OF Battle Creek, in their patent contro-
versy with Nichols, Shepard a. Co, has
become law, settling suit which has
been in the courts for several years The
bill makes perie;t a patent on valve gear
which the first named firm received in 80
but which the secretary of the interior
had Inadvertently failed 10 sign.
The state central committee of the col
ored people of the state met in Jackson on
Do. Int
favoring the submission of a prohibitory
amendment to the people of the state and
indorsing the action of the knights of
labor in behalf of the colored people at
Richmond, Va. The committee then adj
journed, subject to the call of the presi-
dent.
The Commercial iron mining company
has been organized at Negaunee with
capital Of s!,000,OC0, with $1,000 shares Of
stock. President, Hon. Jno. Q. Adams;
vice president. Seth ID. North; secretary.
Nj. X. noteworthy; treasurer, ID. Kleck-
will be Hancock.
Thursday, the 2Sth inst, is the 50th an
niversary of the admission of Michigan
into the union.
Miss Frances L. Willard will lecture in
Michigan in February in the interests Of
the social purity movement.
Mrs. NJ. Adele Hazlett of Hudson, the
well known political speaker, has been ap-
pointed to position in the auditor gem
erals office.
Travelling men should investigate the
advantages offered by the GRAND UNION
HOTEL, New York, as a stopping place for
the commercial fraternity. II is strictly
frst-class in every particular, and is con-
Quoted at prices that caunot but command
the attention of travellers, who wish to
live well and at the same time save their
houses as much as possible in the way of
expenses. Trdgeler.
Five locomotives and the round house OF
the Calumet 4 Hecla mining company at
Calumet were burned the other night at a
loss of $4,000.
Jerry Melampy, young man "a years OF
age, employed in the Lake Angelina mine,
was struck OH the head by falling timber
in the mine and instantly killed.
Lou Brewer of Owosso, is under arrest
for the seduction of Miss Linda Brooks,
aged 10, who died q few days ago, having
become a mother.
Gen. Cutcheon has made formal applica
ton for the establishment of free deliv-
cry service at Manistee and Muskegon.
The postmaster general has promised to
send an inspector to those two cities at
once to report upon the advisability of
establishing the service there.
The bill to consolidate customs districts
has been reported back from the ways
and means committee. Representative
Maybury has secured an amendment which
wipes out the proposed consolidation of
the Marquette with the Duluth district,
and leaves Michigan in just the condition
that il 10 now as far as customs districts
are concerned.
For the ice carnival at Montreal the
Michigan Central and Canadian Pacific
railway will sell excursion tickets there
and return to Detroit at sll.50 for the
round trip. Tickets good going Feb. 4th,
nd
/. T. Wallen, young man employed in
a Grand Rapids factory, was caught in
some machinery as he was putting belt
pulley on a shalt. He slipped and was
dragged between the pulley and a beam.
The pulley made about 100 revolutions
minute. His clothes were torn to shreds,
both legs and one arm were broken, and
he received other injuries.
Falk Austrian, n well known and lead
ing merchant of the Lake Superior copper
region in the sixties, has just died in Chi
cag0,
NJ II. Perkins, of Upton e. Perkins,
clothing Dealers a prominent young bust
ness man and member of the common
council of Hudson, dropped dead the other
day from paralysis of the heart.
viii Rhead and John w. Hall of Hudson.
make affidavit that they have been cured
of their respective ailments by the faith
cure
A company Is being organized in Marine
City to bore Tor natural gas.
A protective association of business men
has been formed in Stanton.
Levi Truesdell aged n, and one of Mus
Regions pioneers, died on the 18th of n
complication of diseases. He was waylaid
by sandbaggers two years ago and never
fully recovered from the effects of the
beating no received. His son died of
pneumonia n few hours later